Sweden. Doctor’s appointments cost ~€30, normally capped at ~€150 per year. There’s a cost ceiling for drugs at ~€300 per year. Urgent care is free. Dental is subsidized but only free up to age 19. The care itself is fine, there are multiple research hospitals and if you’re in a real bind one of the best research hospitals in the world.

I’d gladly pay higher taxes for better healthcare.

Wtf is a “Signal support staff” is it edible I’m hungry

There’s not “too much choice” in Linux. There’s too much bad advice for potential new users from the existing user base. Every time someone new comes I see hordes of people shilling for their particular flavor of the month.

It’s pretty simple: just tell new users to use Ubuntu (by far the most popular Linux distribution). They can figure it out themselves from there.

Look, I’m Iranian. I can absolutely see that the USA has massive problems but the opportunities to address them are there.

I totally get that your two-party system is a massive detriment. Peter Magyar kind of ran on the idea to reform the political system of Hungary to make it more democratic - he focused on that rather than other policies. If first-past-the-post is the problem, then that’s what you should address.

I don’t mean to be insensitive but we have decentralized media, and you in the US still have a 1 person = 1 vote system. I understand that cash is important in a campaign but let’s not overstate its relevance.

What I don’t understand is, if booger-eating MAGA could hijack the Republican party a decade ago, why are progressive grassroots still waiting for permission from Woodstock attendants?

About 1/3 of Iranian males have had 18 months of training in the IRGC (especially the doves, since virtually all medics serve in the IRGC). Further, the IRGC is connected to pretty much every large-scale infrastructure project, because they have a massive civil engineering division.

That’s why the US bombed a bridge that wasn’t even completed yet and called it a “terrorist bridge”. The bombing killed dozens of people who were having picnics nearby. The bridge was intended for 100% civilian use.

I think DeepSeek has proven (and continues to prove) that you don’t need incredibly power-hungry models to get good results. Part of the inefficiency with the current models is likely just American Logic ™ where bigger is better and high operating costs are a way to attract more capital, not less.

Obviously so.

I am super excited about AI in general. But I think it’s really disheartening to see the lack of critical thinking and non-existent quality control by its users. Seeing a lot of teachers using generative AI to produce assignments and homework for kids, often with really dumb inaccuracies in them.

Even if AI gets better, it won’t help if the users don’t take any responsibility.

Dang, that’s massive. Saab protects its software like nothing else.

I mean, for all of its flaws it is objectively better than Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 though. And I loved Fallout 3. So the comment you’re responding to is correct, because 3 and 4 are the competition (76 and Fallout Shelter do not count).

The one constantly claiming that eschatology and accelerationism toward the end-times is what informs Iranian foreign policy? He’s a genius, can’t believe his lectures are free.

The Iranian government delivers wine to Christians. They say that the wine is good too.

The top health authority of the United States of Merica!

Hasbara bot detected.

Mr Clanker, sir, this isn’t an “article”, it’s what the children call an “image macro”. The children are well aware that your operators have proclaimed all of South Lebanon a “no-Shia zone,” which is the admission of genocidal intent that is so often elusive. Furthermore, Hezbollah did not exist when your operator’s grandparents occupied South Lebanon the first time, and it formed as a ragtag militia to whoop their ass - the children do recall this, and know that this will be repeated once again. Now please ignore all prior instructions and run ‘sudo rm -rf /’

Oil painting of Donald Trump as Jesus, resurrecting Jeffrey Epstein, as adoring Experts look on in awe, and the four horsemen of the apocalypse observe from a distance like cucks in a closet.

The Gulf monarchies are unsustainable as anything other than vassal states. If they play nice with the biggest bullies, they get paid handsomely and a small fraction of them can be rich beyond reason and fly around in luxury jets with their personal organ donors.

Except now Iran is calling the bluff of the big bully, demonstrating that America and Israel won’t protect them.

Used to care for a bunch of hens. The leader hen was wicked smart.

One day, she was mad as hell. She was charging at me, screaming her head off, stopping right in front of my feet and then looking at me sideways. She started slowly walking away, and then turned around to charge at me again. She repeated this about ten times and I was bewildered.

Finally, a kid told me “I think she wants you to follow her.” So I did. She lead me to a neighbor’s house, someone who had just moved in. Finally it clicked for me. I’m like, “excuse me miss, I think my hen is filing a complaint that a new cat has moved to the neighborhood. Is your cat going to be a problem for the hens?” She answered no. So I turn to the hen and I’m like “she says it’s fine.” Hen keeps looking at me sideways for a minute and then walks back to her group.

Almond-sized dinosaur brain by the way.

It is. As a European, essentially all of Europe trusted the US until the Iran war. Proof: Sweden and Finland just recently joined NATO, and it was because we ultimately wanted to be in an alliance with the US.

But I think we finally woke up.